linux-toradex.git/net/tipc/link.h, branch v3.10.8

tipc: remove the bearer congestion mechanism

2012-11-22T01:07:25+00:00

Currently at the TIPC bearer layer there is the following congestion
mechanism:

Once sending packets has failed via that bearer, the bearer will be
flagged as being in congested state at once. During bearer congestion,
all packets arriving at link will be queued on the link's outgoing
buffer.  When we detect that the state of bearer congestion has
relaxed (e.g. some packets are received from the bearer) we will try
our best to push all packets in the link's outgoing buffer until the
buffer is empty, or until the bearer is congested again.

However, in fact the TIPC bearer never receives any feedback from the
device layer whether a send was successful or not, so it must always
assume it was successful. Therefore, the bearer congestion mechanism
as it exists currently is of no value.

But the bearer blocking state is still useful for us. For example,
when the physical media goes down/up, we need to change the state of
the links bound to the bearer.  So the code maintaing the state
information is not removed.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: remove print_buf and deprecated log buffer code

2012-07-13T23:34:43+00:00

The internal log buffer handling functions can now safely be
removed since there is no code using it anymore.  Requests to
interact with the internal tipc log buffer over netlink (in
config.c) will report 'obsolete command'.

This represents the final removal of any references to a
struct print_buf, and the removal of the struct itself.
We also get rid of a TIPC specific Kconfig in the process.

Finally, log.h is removed since it is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: factor stats struct out of the larger link struct

2012-07-12T13:53:57+00:00

This is done to improve readability, and so that we can give
the struct a name that will allow us to declare a local
pointer to it in code, instead of having to always redirect
through the link struct to get to it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: compress out gratuitous extra carriage returns

2012-04-30T19:53:56+00:00

Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two
functions, or between blocks of code.  Delete the extra line
feeds between any comment and its associated following block
of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of
the kernel.  Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix
a couple trivial typos in existing comments.

This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact.  We get
rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes,
they won't even show up as noise in git blame.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: rename struct link* to struct tipc_link*

2011-12-30T02:53:30+00:00

This converts the following:

	struct link		->	struct tipc_link
	struct link_req		->	struct tipc_link_req
	struct link_name	->	struct tipc_link_name

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Allow use of buf_seqno() helper routine by unicast links

2011-12-27T16:33:54+00:00

Migrates the buf_seqno() helper routine from broadcast link level to
unicast link level so that it can be used both types of TIPC links.
This is a cosmetic change only, and does not affect the operation of TIPC.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Ignore broadcast acknowledgements that are out-of-range

2011-12-27T16:33:53+00:00

Adds checks to TIPC's broadcast link so that it ignores any
acknowledgement message containing a sequence number that does not
correspond to an unacknowledged message currently in the broadcast
link's transmit queue.

This change prevents the broadcast link from becoming stalled if a
newly booted node receives stale broadcast link acknowledgement
information from another node that has not yet fully synchronized
its end of the broadcast link to reflect the current state of the
new node's end.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Enhance sending of bulk name table messages

2011-09-18T02:55:10+00:00

Modifies the initial transfer of name table entries to a new neighboring
node so that the messages are enqueued as a unit, rather than individually.

The revised algorithm now locates the link carrying the message only once,
and eliminates unnecessary checks for link congestion, message fragmentation,
and message bundling that are not required when sending these messages.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Avoid recomputation of outgoing message length

2011-05-10T20:03:57+00:00

Rework TIPC's message sending routines to take advantage of the total
amount of data value passed to it by the kernel socket infrastructure.
This change eliminates the need for TIPC to compute the size of outgoing
messages itself, as well as the check for an oversize message in
tipc_msg_build().  In addition, this change warrants an explanation:

   -     res = send_packet(NULL, sock, &my_msg, 0);
   +     res = send_packet(NULL, sock, &my_msg, bytes_to_send);

Previously, the final argument to send_packet() was ignored (since the
amount of data being sent was recalculated by a lower-level routine)
and we could just pass in a dummy value (0). Now that the
recalculation is being eliminated, the argument value being passed to
send_packet() is significant and we have to supply the actual amount
of data we want to send.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Optimizations to link creation code

2011-03-13T20:35:18+00:00

Enhances link creation code as follows:

1) Detects illegal attempts to add a requested link earlier in the
   link creation process. This prevents TIPC from wasting time
   initializing a link object it then throws away, and also eliminates
   the code needed to do the throwing away.

2) Passes in the node object associated with the requested link.
   This allows TIPC to eliminate a search to locate the node object,
   as well as code that attempted to create the node if it doesn't
   exist.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker